Jackson School of Geosciences

Alissa J Kotowski

Co-supervisors

I'm pursuing my Ph.D. at the Jackson School of Geosciences, working with Whitney Behr and Danny Stockli. I graduated from Boston College in 2014, where my undergraduate research background focused on Earthquake Migration along the North Anatolian and Alpine Faults with links to regional tectonics and structure. My broad interests encompass tectonic processes, structural geology and metamorphic petrology.

My research at UT focuses on the structural and rheological evolution of high-pressure metamorphic rocks during subduction and exhumation from Syros, Greece. More broadly, I'm interested in large-scale geodynamic processes, and the links between rock rheology and seismic processes in subduction zones.

Talk: Cellular Seismology, Earthquake Migration, and Transform Faults: Analysis of the Alpine Fault in New Zealand and Comparison with the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey,
Boston College Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences Colloquium, Chestnut Hill, MA (2014)